[dfwgator]

But don’t you agree we’ve definitely reached the point of diminishing marginal returns?

For example, I literally could listen to a song from the 1960s, and tell you not only the year, but the month of the song.

If you play me a song made after the year 2000, I couldn’t tell you the year, or even the decade, it all sounds the same now.

[Skooz]

Yet, 55 years on, this still sounds avant-garde:

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[Magic Fingers]

“But don’t you agree we’ve definitely reached the point of diminishing marginal returns?”

I don’t agree - but that question is irrelevant to artists anyway. That’s not what drives them to create.

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“If you play me a song made after the year 2000, I couldn’t tell you the year, or even the decade, it all sounds the same now.”

That’s a commentary on your discernment and taste and listening history - which is of course valid for you - but not with respect to the vastly broader question about the overall value to art being created today.

When music changed dramatically in the 60’s, there were people who said it was all crap and that all good music had already been made...and they said that in the 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s. Were any of them right? Of course not. Who could have seen what would unfold in the 60’s? You never know when the next revolution will come or from whom. True artists are compelled to keep trying.